on 11/20/2002 05:56 AM, Dennis Young at mail@woodworkingboy.com wrote:
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>> Subject: [CR]Re: Fiat Racing Team and Merckx Question(s)?
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> When DeRosa was fabricating Merckx frames after the Belgian's racing career
> ended, what was the connection to Eddy? Was it a honorary thing to Merckx,
> or did Eddy have some input into the geometries possibly, or perhaps mainly
> a marketing strategy to put the great rider's name on frames directed to the
> general public? Weren't the frames very similar to the DeRosa ones.
DeRosa built them as a subcontracter, while Eddy was setting up his factory (under Ugo DeRosa's guidance).
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